A total of 60 teams contest the league. Clubs include 4 sides relegated from the —16 Serie B season, 41 sides playing the —16 Lega Pro season, and 9 sides promoted from the —16 Serie D season.

Also, six teams are chosen to play in the league to increase the number of teams to On 1 July , 54 teams mathematically qualified to the new season.

However, Martina Franca and Sporting Bellinzago did not submit their application for a licence. Play-outs on 21 and 28 May , loser on aggregate is relegated.

Higher placed team plays at home for second leg. If tied on aggregate, lower-placed team is relegated. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Retrieved 4 August Calcio Dipendenza in Italian. Retrieved 2 September The Results of the Board of Directors]. The number of clubs belonging to the Prima Divisione continued to increase every year, until FIGC decided to rename it as "Serie C" at the beginning of the season while a subsequent large reduction in led to the creation of a sole national division in The reform that created the actual league was decided by Bruno Zauli in as he built on the incomplete work started by the former president Ottorino Barassi to make professional football fully recognised and organised.

While Lega Calcio had a stated mission of organising professional and national divisions, the new Lega Nazionale Semiprofessionisti based in Florence had to regulate the two semiprofessional and subnational divisions: Serie C and Serie D , with the first one adopting a format of three groups of 20 teams each.

In the semiprofessional sector was abolished; Serie D became an amateur section while Serie C was divided into two professional divisions Serie C1 and Serie C2 , and the league changed its name to Lega Professionisti Serie C.

On 20 June the league was restructured and took its current name Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico. This is the league structure currently in operation; comprising 60 teams that are divided geographically in three groups of 20 each.

At the end of each season, four teams are promoted to Serie B three group winners, plus one coming from a promotion playoff involving the three group runners-up.

Meanwhile, nine teams are relegated to Serie D: In order to encourage homegrown players, all Lega Pro clubs were capped to use 16 players that were older than 23 of age in —17 season, player born before 1 January , plus two wildcard for long serving players of the clubs.

The club could use an unlimited numbers of under players. This is the complete list of the clubs that took part in the 38 Serie C seasons played from the —36 season until the —78 season participation in the editions of the —46 , —47 and —48 seasons, championships that due to World War II, are excluded from the list as they were divided into two completely independent leagues , the three Lega Pro seasons played from the —15 season until the —17 season , and from the —18 season.

The teams in bold compete in Serie C in the current season. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirected from Lega Pro.

This article is about the Italian football league. List of Serie C champions and promotions. Retrieved 12 August Retrieved 28 September